School: Attymass G
- Location:
- Attymass, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs B. Flannelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 203
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- (continued from previous page)town not to wear any shoes or stockings but they would carry them with them. About a quarter of a mile from the town they would put them on them. The women used to ride on horse-back.
- It was the custom in the olden times for the old people to walk to Knock. It was the custom to hold an annual race in the Gurteen race track near Ballina
- It was the custom to gather a lot of May flowers the last day of April to to have them on May morning to decorate the doorstep. They were not put in vases but put down on the ground for everybody to see them and to walk on them.
- Long ago it was an old custom that people used to get up at daybreak and do(continues on next page)
